June 2015: ICE LAW Project receives funding from Leverhulme Trust

The Leverhulme Trust’s International Networks Programme has awarded Durham University £125,000 to support the Project on Indeterminate and Changing Environments: Law, the Anthropocene, and the World (the ICE LAW Project), headed by Durham University Professor of Political Geography Phil Steinberg.

The grant, which will run from 2016 through 2018, will fund a series of subproject-based workshops, community meetings with local and indigenous residents, major conferences, and sessions at the 2017 meeting of the International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences. Funding for a seventh subproject — the Global Connections subproject that would study comparisons and linkages between the geophysics-geopolitics relationship in the Arctic with that in other world regions — is pending.

In addition to Phil Steinberg’s general coordination, subproject activities funded by the grant will be under the leadership of: